The rose of Sebastopol
By: Katharine McMahon
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780297850922; 9780297851820
Subjects: Nurses; Fiction; Crimean War, 1853-1856
Description: In 1855 Rosa Barr, a headstrong young woman, travels to the Crimea, against the wishes of her family, determined to work as a nurse. She does not return. Three people have been intimately connected with her. One, her brother, a soldier and adventurer; the second, a doctor, traumatized by the war and harbouring a secret passion; and the third, Mariella, her cousin and childhood friend, who must now uncover the truth about what has happened to the missing nurse. Mariella's epic journey takes her from the domestic quiet of London to the foothills of Italy, and on to the ravaged Russian landscape of the Crimea, where she must discover what has happened to her captivating and mysterious cousin and uncover the secrets of those who loved her.